Note to self, always preorder everything at Best Buy.
By the time the iPhone 7s rolls around, they'll be paying $500 for delayed pre-orders!
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Best Buy Delays Some iPhone 7 Plus Orders, Offers $100 Promo Code as Compensation
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By the time the iPhone 7s rolls around, they'll be paying $500 for delayed pre-orders!
Fantastic, inexpensive PR move on BB's part. From now one order from BB and then HOPE your pre-order is delayed. Heh.
Of course, for those who didn't pre-order, no worries, soon it will be November, time for holiday sales and we know that that means -- $100 off an iPhone.
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Honestly, it's not a bad theory in light of the fact this is how Apple handled Black Friday AW sales last year -- gave incentives to BB rather than have it's own BF sale. But this is different and it would be too dangerous for BB to take $ from Apple to forego it's launch stock. First, some customers will still be pissed even w/ the GF. Second, if word ever got out both Apple and BB would look rotten.
Of course, for those who didn't pre-order, no worries, soon it will be November, time for holiday sales and we know that that means -- $100 off an iPhone.
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Honestly, it's not a bad theory in light of the fact this is how Apple handled Black Friday AW sales last year -- gave incentives to BB rather than have it's own BF sale. But this is different and it would be too dangerous for BB to take $ from Apple to forego it's launch stock. First, some customers will still be pissed even w/ the GF. Second, if word ever got out both Apple and BB would look rotten.
Definitely concerned my early Oct shipping date won't be met. Still happy with my 6+, first iPhone I kept 2 years. Will consider cancelling and waiting till next year over next couple of weeks.
I know you're likely kidding but part of staying up till midnight - 3am depending on your local time is so that you can get the device on launch day. Nothing like staying up till 3am only to be told that you aren't getting the device on launch day and your time was only worth $50 or $100. They could have at least applied the discount to the watch/phone order rather than trying to get another purchase out of their victims.
Either Apple is so pathetic that they did not believe in their own product and expected significantly lower demand, or the combination of Note 7 Explosions and Apple actually delivering a solid phone compared to the 6S has actually gotten people to buy this iPhone significantly more than the 6/6+ series. Unless they are going for a 100M+ iPhone sales for the holiday quarter, it's pathetic of Apple to not be able to meet demand when the iPhone is using the same design for the 3rd straight year.
And we're back to reality. They just called again and said nope sorry, we got ZERO 7 Plus at all. Maybe in the next shipment Sunday night. I asked about the $100 and he wasn't aware of it. I'm not pissed, yet.
Same for me. But I spoke to a store associate and was told that they called everyone that would have a phone on launch day to set up an appointment to pick it up. He said they have zero pluses in stock at this time.
I ordered because Apple wasn't coming up. 1/2 of my ordered is delayed. I have tracking info for the other
but its not the same design on the inside...why do people miss this, the outer design only changes as the internals allow...curved is next, then slimmer...its an evolution and if its the same to you why did you preorder?
They simply didn't expect that the number of IUP customers who were eligible for upgrades, to actually want to upgrade at the launch...
I ordered from T-Mobile right after they started taking pre-orders and I have to wait a few weeks to get mine. So I do understand... but I get exactly $0 for my trouble. So I'm partially kidding, partially serious.
I think it's a great phone, I'm not saying anything about that. But it is a 2+ year old design, so ramping up the production should be easier, and I don't understand the logic of not having enough of certain models till November considering even if they order too many, they have 3 more quarters to sell it after the holiday quarter.
I ordered from T-Mobile right after they started taking pre-orders and I have to wait a few weeks to get mine. So I do understand... but I get exactly $0 for my trouble. So I'm partially kidding, partially serious.
i think the big difference is that Best Buy was saying they were going to deliver right to the point they said they weren't...if they really cared about their customers the brick and mortar stores would be bare of any iPhone 7 model that was preordered...and i agree the credit being applied to a future order is a slap in the face. i have no doubt that somewhere in US there is a iPhone 7 128 gb matte black in a store for sale, as well as my apple watch order..
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as i said you can't change the design until the technology allows it..and by the way the design is still copied left and right so its apparently not old yet....next model won't have the home button or mho an edge to edge screen
Oh, that's a good point. I was never led to believe that my phone would arrive on launch day. That's what I get for not reading carefully.
the carriers are always good about that, they are upfront if they aren't able to fulfill at launch, as was Apple until the IUP fiasco...their preorder ship times were later than the launch for certain models...
It's interesting that TC is supposed to be the supply chain guru. However, it appears to me, that many of the components come from the same supplier each year., and yes, there are new items that go into the makeup of the product. At that point, it seems that you would know the yield rate in advance and can quantify that into your product equation. If you are having even a 1% failure rate in some parts, would you not increase the order of these parts to compensate and adjust production accordingly?
With that said, as many years that the iPhone has, with any release, have a shortage of inventory, to me, is becoming to be almost planned. It seems that TC could allow an extra 30 days of inventory to satisfy demand. Oh well, so much for a bean counter,
This is some bs right here. They should have announced this before the pre order. I would have waited a month to get my new phone if it meant get $100 from best buy! lmao!
I am getting my iPhone 7 Plus Matte and Jet Black delivered from Apple tomorrow while the Best Buy people complain. I didn't mean to insult anyone's intelligence but ordering from Apple is typically the safest route.
Yes, congrats to Tim for creating yet another successful product that is so popular it's hard to get.
You do know that Apple isn't doing this for PR right? No amount of PR would make up for the sales they could have made. It's the most popular selling phone in the world, it sells out every year. They're not artificially holding stock back when they could sell them and make money.
It's coming from their own store stock. That wasn't obvious when they simultaneously announced that they'd have extremely limited in store stock?
They aren't holding stock back. They failed to plan to have adequate inventories to meet at least 80% of the demand. Poor logistics planning,
its absolutely what they are doing, and do every year...the only phone that is actually short of stock is 7+...they were overwhelmed by IUP orders, which is why they evidently bought BBYs preorder stock.